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Artefact ID490
TM IDTM 87125
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageCoptic
Description

P.MoscowCopt. 11

Two fragments of a letter in Coptic (S with A/L influences) with some text missing between the two, address lost as well as beginning with names, writer tells addressee that the latter's prayers would protect him whereever he would be, thus he begs him to constantly pray for him until he is coming south again, adds some greetings to two other men

Selection criteriaMention of Christian individuals/communities, Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Coptic language
Date from301
Date to500
Dating criteria

Paleography

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts I.1.б.678

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Ernstedt, Petr Viktorovich (Ернштедт, Петр Викторович). 1959. Коптсие Тексты государственного музея изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина [Koptskie Teksty Gosudarstvennogo muzeja izobrazitelʹnych iskusstv imeni A. S. Puškina]. Moscow & Leningrad: Издательство Академии Наук СССР [USSR Academy of Sciences Publishing House]. 33-37, No. 11.

Authors
Matthias Müller, 2021
Suggested citation
Matthias Müller, 2021, "Artefact ID 490", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/490
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